SharePoint Search
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Support the suffix matching in the search result
give the possibility by default to search result for suffix matching.
For example to receive result for "SharePoint" i could write "Share"
or "Point" and automatically the search will consider the search key as "Share*" or "*Point".10 votesThank you for your feedback! We don’t support prefix search. There are upsides and downsides with doing suffix search by default. It’s a question of what’s best for most people. We’re taking your feedback into consideration.
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Customizing new search boxes
I have some comments on search boxes on the left side of the screen viewed after clicking "SharePoint" from app launcher.
I can find with ease on which sites searched items are shown, but I can't customize the "items on some specified sites” and so on just like I used to do for classic search boxes.
I am able to customize classic search boxes, but I have a difficulty in looking for the items and I can't find the sites for items.
I request that I am able to make a search of items I look for by narrowing them…6 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion.
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Modern Sharepoint search page to use Search settings page result URL from site collection
Modern Sharepoint search page to use default Search settings page result URL from site collection so that results can go to enterpise search - search center page /search
5 votesThank you for your answer! The default behavior when you search from a site, is that you get results from that site. You can change the scope to be all of SharePoint by clicking the SharePoint link that’s directly above the search box on the search results page. After changing the scope you’ll also see results from your on-premises content that has been pushed to the Office 365 index.
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Remove pagination in search results
why limit search results and break them down into pages? You cannot quickly access pages with a higher number, nor do you know how many search results there are - giving you no indication whatsoever of the amount of pages I might have to trawl through.
Pagination in people search results is especially frustrating.
5 votesThanks for your feedback! We understand your concern and are reviewing your suggestion. Remember, the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it.
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Use Display Templates when rendering results on SharePoint Home
At the top of the SharePoint Home page (_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx) is a search box. The items shown as a result of using that search box do not respect any configured Display Templates.
5 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion. Remember, the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it.
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Create a Search Score explain tool
Providing a tool that helps break down the search result score that an individual search result has received would help remove the mystery around SharePoint search. This could then be used to understand why results aren't returning in an expected order and tune metadata, settings, etc appropriately.
4 votesThanks for your feedback! We understand what you’d like to achieve and we’re revieweing your suggestion. The more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it.
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Increase hit highlighted summary length / make configurable
Currently, the HitHighlightedSummary value is shows hits from the first 10,000 characters of a document. When the hits are not included in the summary, it pulls a summary from a seemingly random part of the document.
This limit seems arbitrarily low. Many of our documents hit the limit after the first 5 pages, which often include a lot of boilerplate. It's caused a lot of confusion for our users and during usability testing, many expressed a lack of confidence in the search results ("why am I getting this result, is it broken?").
This limit should be increased, and preferably configurable…
4 votesThanks for your feedback! We understand your concerns. There are several perspectives to take into consideration here and we’re reviewing these.
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"query rule"
Please add the SharePoint On-Premises feature to SharePoint Online to create Query Rules with the Query Condition: "Query matches this regular expression". This would enable us to target query rules based on our organisations reference format.
4 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion. Remember, the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. You can see what’s happening with Office 365 on the Office 365 Roadmap.
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SharePoint Online search connector to Azure Data Lake
This idea is to create a SharePoint Online search connector to Azure Data Lake. This should be similar to the file share connector we have in hybrid search, but connect directly from the SharePoint Online search engine to Azure Data Lake. This will allow us to include files stored in Azure Data Lake in the enterprise search solution.
3 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your idea. The more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it
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Partial word search by default (no requirement for wildcard)
I worked with Microsoft support to create a new search scope that included the wildcard for every entry at the top level site. We applied this template as the default and it works when searching at the top level site. However, it does not apply when searching within a Document library that resides at the same level as the parent. Ultimately, we do not want to require a wildcard for every partial search. If someone wants to find instructions in our library for GoToMeeting they should be able to find it by simply entering Goto.
2 votesThank you for your feedback! There are upsides and downsides with doing partial word search by default. It’s a question of what’s best for most people. We’re taking your feedback into consideration.
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Show search results for pages under Websites (or pages) not under files in Modern SharePoint Search
When users search for pages in modern search (via SharePoint Home or on Communication/Team Site) they will find pages under files. Most users don't know that SharePoint pages are actually .aspx files. Files for them are Office documents, PDFs or pictures, but NOT pages.
Please make it easier for users to distinguish those content types. A possible solution could be to include pages in the websites results (for users sites are sites, not site collections and pages). You could als provide a filter under websites results for site collections and pages.
2 votesThank you for your feedback and suggestion! We’re aware that presenting page results under Files is challenging, and are considering other solutions. However we can’t share a timeline on this now.
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External users access to use People Search in O365
We have B2B external users in SharePoint Online that would need to use our people search-based corporate directory. This has been working before but recently external users have been seeing only "nothing found" view.
2 votesThanks for your feedback! We understand your concerns. There are several perspectives to take into consideration here and we’re reviewing these.
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show preview of image on sharepoint search result
Show preview of image file in sharepoint search result, when image location is a document library
2 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion.
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.DWG
Allow to add custom file extension type like .DWG etc. so that search results could be able to link to actual file like .pdf etc.
1 voteThanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion. Remember, the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it.
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Make a search webpart for modern experience
Why is there no search webpart in the modern experience?
0 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion. Remember, the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it. You can see what’s happening with Office 365 on the Office 365 Roadmap.
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About deleting query suggestions that are automatically generated when searching
*English follows Japanese
検索時に自動作成されるクエリ候補の削除について
検索時に自動的に作成されたクエリの候補から特定の候補のみを削除できるようにしたい
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About deleting query suggestions that are automatically generated when searching
I want to delete specific suggestions from query suggestions that are automatically generated when searching.0 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion.
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